In the last few weeks, numerous Hawaii healthcare industry leaders have stepped forward to create deniability for themselves in the upcoming Hawaii Health Connector/Health Exchange disaster. Those who are implementing Obamacare in Hawaii are now putting themselves on the record explaining that Obamacare will mean higher insurance premiums, fewer doctors and nurses, and shuttered hospitals.

Here are their statements, accumulated in one place so that it can be clearly seen that many of those who are in charge are predicting failure:

HMSA Chief Predicts Obamacare 'Rate Shock' for Hawaii

Maui News May 9, 2013: If Hawaii consumers think health care reform will lower costs, especially in the short term, then they should brace themselves for "rate shock," said Michael Gold, president and chief executive officer of the Hawaii Medical Service Association.

His comments came Wednesday, about a week after the Hawaii state insurance commissioner approved a rate increase of 6.8 percent for HMSA....

"Across the country, people are talking about what they're calling 'rate shock,' '' Gold said. "The idea behind 'rate shock' is that it will be a shock to everybody when rates actually go up instead of coming down once health care reform is implemented....

While it's a "good thing" to extend health coverage to more people, "the money has to come from someplace," Gold said. "It's going to come from, in a sense, all of us who've been paying up until now."

Insurance rates will go up to pay for federal levies assessed on health plans, he said, "and the health plans are going to build those into their rates because they don't have any extra money."...

Which will send the US economy into a tailspin that will ensure our demise... can’t say we weren’t warned... but of course it was and still is racism to say as much... G-D Obama’s America and Obama himself.

I think a lot of individuals will just pay the penalty because the premiums are too high. I see in CA they are proposing an additional penalty on big business for part time workers that qualify for medical. I think it is if someone works even 8 hrs. a week. Meanwhile they’re spending millions of union wages to people to market the exchange in several languages.

If I have the concept correct, requiring under 30's people to have insurance will increase the pool of payers but since young people have fewer medical costs, they will not use medical services as often, thus, lowering the cost of insurance.

However, when the unemployment rate (not counting the underemployed) of the under 30's is 25%, that means that 25% will be on medicaid.

That same unemployment rate is of course the direct consequence of the cost of Obamacare.

There's still no such thing as a free lunch no matter how many times liberals wish for one.

Do you know of any liberal/Dem proposed law/entitlement that didn't cost more than they said it would? They all knew they were under-reporting the cost: the important thing was to get it written into law, then push that we have to support it with more money ("It's the LAW!!").

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posted on 05/13/2013 2:15:39 PM PDT
by jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)

Health care is in a crisis right now: Reimbursements are going down, we've got aging facilities, doctors are leaving. If we don't change the way we do business, we're not going to have any health care." .

The trainwreck is a few months away. When people get no healthcare and call a doctor only to be refused, the train is going to leave the tracks.

Gonna get real ugly. Actually I'm looking forward to it. Can't wait for the great unwashed demturd voters who all of a sudden will realize their dreams of "free" healthcare are nothing more than smoke & mirrors. Especially when they can't find any doctors to treat them or examine them, and they end up overwhelming & killing the emergency rooms in most hospitals if not all hospitals. Just stay alert & well fortified, and let the demturds & entitlement class riot in the streets!

We as conservatives are going to have to put aside our differences to achieve a few limited goals on the federal level.

This is not to say that we should forsake our other goals merely that we should presue theses other goals by diffrent means.

I am a firm believer that Washington is deadlocked for the good reason that we as a people cannot agree on theses issues and therefore should not function together on them.

Washington politicians including their employees both in and out of black robes have the corrupt position that if they can’t weld all power on the matter nobody should. We must resit, obstruct and ultimalty marginalia them at the State level.

SHUT DOWN WASHINGTON, let our States reclaim dominance on domestic affairs. Let the left run themselves and their poor states into the ground.

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